Users of Bitrix24 may connect the service’s calendars to their Apple device (Mac OS X, iPad, iPhone) and implement two-way sync. That is, when events in the Bitrix24 calendar are added or changed, these changes are displayed on the Apple device, and vice versa.

Also, users can add all the contacts to their devices and find data about any colleague at any time. This is one-way integration, that is, contacts are loaded to the device from Bitrix24, but cannot be loaded to it from the device. If a contact profile has changed, or if new contacts have been added, the information will be correspondingly upd ated in the device.

Since Android-based systems don’t have support CardDAV and CalDAV protocols by default, connection via this technology is not possible.

There are applications in the Android Market which facilitate connection. In this case, you’ll need to show the path to the calendar in Bitrix24, which will look something like: https://<your_company>.bitrix24.com/bitrix/groupdav.php/s1/<your_login>/calendar/2/. The exact path can be found under the “Mobile Connection” button beside the calendar grid in Bitrix24.

However, Google calendars can be connected and synchronized without additional software. Consequently, a Bitrix24 calendar can be synchronized with Google, which is in turn used to synch with an Android device.

To set up this type of synchronization, there are two steps: connect a Google calendar with Bitrix24, and then connect the Android device to this Google calendar.

To connect to Google, perform the following actions in Bitrix24:

1. On the Bitrix24 calendar page, in the Add menu, choose the ‘external calendar (CalDav)’ option.

Hi,Now you have 2 calendars (internal and external) that show on the calendar grid and are shown on the right hand side of the calendar page. These are actually 2 different calendars, even though they show on the same grid. If you want an event to display in the Google calendar, you need to select it in the 'calendar' field in the event creation pop-up.

The problem im getting is that anything entered into outlook 2010 will sync with your server perfectly (time wise) but when it comes to outputting it from iCal on the ipad, all the appointments suddenly jump a few hours. Unfortunately I would love to be able to sit and play with it for a few hours to attempt to solve the problem mysef - but my MD is going to France for a few days, and from wednesday, she's stupidly busy and doesn't need her calendar on her iPad being out of sync (time wise) with her calendar that she set on her PC.

Can you be a bit more specific? What do you mean by a "special password"? I click on https://www.google.com/settings/account and see my account details but don't see any link or something similar to a set of instructions to allow Bitrix24 sync with my calendar...the more details you give the better )

Can you please specify on which step of this instruction do you have a problem?

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Users of Bitrix24 may connect the service’s calendars to their Apple device (Mac OS X, iPad, iPhone) and implement two-way sync. That is, when events in the Bitrix24 calendar are added or changed, these changes are displayed on the Apple device, and vice versa.

Also, users can add all the contacts to their devices and find data about any colleague at any time. This is one-way integration, that is, contacts are loaded to the device from Bitrix24, but cannot be loaded to it from the device. If a contact profile has changed, or if new contacts have been added, the information will be correspondingly upd ated in the device.

We are working on the Time Zone problem solution. There were some changes after the latest Apple updates that changed the way of determining time zones. Fixes will be applied quite soon. Sorry for the inconvenience.

I see here the different ways to pull calendar data from google calendar, but what about webcal links from other calendar services....

I use supersaas.com for allowing clients to login to the calendar and schedule services and appointments, with great control and functionality that google calendar doesnt have, but like most popular calendar services, they provide the webcal link to publish for example:

I have added the google calendar to bitrix and I can see the events scheduled, but how can I share this calendar with the team or other employees?

This option is not available yet, I've put your suggestion to our Dev team.

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In workgroup calendars, is there an option to import google calendars, because it seems that option is only available in my calendar in my "workspace".

Actually not yet. Now you can only configure your favorite calendars to the group calendar (for example your google calendar) - but it will be seen only to you. But we are aware of this feature necessaty and may add it soon. Can you please give more details of this scenario - so that we could understand better the way you need this to work? Thank you.

I have added the google calendar to bitrix and I can see the events scheduled, but how can I share this calendar with the team or other employees?

This option is not available yet, I've put your suggestion to our Dev team.

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In workgroup calendars, is there an option to import google calendars, because it seems that option is only available in my calendar in my "workspace".

Actually not yet. Now you can only configure your favorite calendars to the group calendar (for example your google calendar) - but it will be seen only to you. But we are aware of this feature necessaty and may add it soon. Can you please give more details of this scenario - so that we could understand better the way you need this to work? Thank you.

Regards,

Yana.

Limitations for calendars in bitrix seem to be the following:

1. Calendars made in "my workspace" cannot be shared with other team members.

2. You can only share calendars in bitrix that are created in "workgroups" Many calendars dont fit in a specific workgroup, and creating an new open workgroup just to create a sharable calendar seems highly inefficient and could quickly lead to cluttered useless workgroups.

3. Calendars cannot be added fr om webcal link. Only allowing google calendars to be imported is very restrictive, especially when almost any other crm with calendar functions will allow for standard webcal links.

4. Even if your calendar happens to be on google, you still cant share it with team members because you can only share calendars that were created in "workgroups", where imported calendars are not an option, and you can only import calendars from google in "my workspace", wh ere sharing is not an option.

5. Some events have an option to "add CRM items", which is great, but you cant add your leads or contacts from the crm, you literally have to leave your crm, go find the right calendar, find the right event they are invited to and then manually add them. It would be much more useful if you could schedule the CRM item to join an event from the lead or contact page.

6. Recurring events should be able to make modifications for single occurrences. Such as a recurring weekly staff meeting, and due to the holiday or unexpected reasons, you can change one instance of the event (meeting time) without modifying all previous and following events (meeting times). Also, details often change in recurring events, such as different staff required to attend or different leads and contacts could be scheduled for a weekly recurring event, but as it is, recurring events can make no modifications on single occurrences without changing all other instances of the event.

7. It would be nice to share calendars with extranet users, who could also request to join events, could have credits that could be consumed for events, and such.

We are a private school and with class schedules, activities, class resources, appointment scheduling, recurring events with multiple students, you can see for many service based industry like us, communication in a system like bitrix social network is helpful, but limited functionality of sharing calendars hinders education, gyms, spa, salons, and many other small social business.

Thats all for now! I hope the suggestions could help!

By the way, I missed out on the cyber monday special offer you guys had, that was a fantastic deal! I hope education pricing could get some specials like that!

Contacts: Users can add all the contacts to their devices and find data about any colleague at any time. This is one-way integration, that is, contacts are loaded to the device from Bitrix24, but cannot be loaded to it from the device.

Calendar: Users of Bitrix24 may connect the service’s calendars to their Apple device (Mac OS X, iPad, iPhone) and implement two-way sync. That is, when events in the Bitrix24 calendar are added or changed, these changes are displayed on the Apple device, and vice versa.

If the above-mentioned does not answer your question, please explain what is your problem exactly (detailed explanation of the problem would be helpful).

Hello, I have written tickets already about the Google Calendar Synchronization and no success. I have been trying for weeks now to get the calendars synchronized for our employees. Mine ended up working by chance as I have actually made a mistake in my e-mail address. (I wrote namesurname@gmail.com instead of name.surname@gmail.com, which is wrong as my e-mail is with a "dot")

I am seeing all these messages on the Forum... and some are really getting old but the problem is still not fixed!If so many people have trouble with this synchronization I don't understand why nothing can be done?

This will actually influence our decision if yes or no we will work with Bitrix in the future as we are still in "testing mode" because of things like that.

I have written tickets already about the Google Calendar Synchronization and no success.

Please give the ticket numbers so that we can help with the issue.

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I am seeing all these messages on the Forum... and some are really getting old but the problem is still not fixed! If so many people have trouble with this synchronization I don't understand why nothing can be done?

We do want to help our users with any kind of problems they may be experiencing. It will be very helpful if you give an explanation on which step of sync process are you experiencing difficulties (same for your employees - if the problem is the same or different).

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This will actually influence our decision if yes or no we will work with Bitrix in the future as we are still in "testing mode" because of things like that.

Sorry to hear that.

Please note that we are working on this subject and any feedback will be helpful and highly appreciated.

Hello Yana, Thank you for your reply. My ticket is ID=12821. I have not actually kept writing there as the last thing I was asked was to change try changing Gmail account password. We cannot constantly change our passwords for testing purposes. We have many passwords and therefore we cannot change just for Synchronizing our google calendar to Bitrix. In the ticket ID I gave you above you can see what my problem is. I ended up being able to synchronize my calendar, but no one else. And my e-mail address for the synchronization is still wrong. I did a mistake by not writing the "dot" in my e-mail address and then I received a ticket on the helpdesk telling my to try without the "dot" in my e-mail. I would really appreciate if someone is able to fix this problem as it is extremely frustrating. Thanks.Kind regardsJanika

1.1 Sun-Sat is default view, it would be great to set the start day to Monday or Tuesday, also removing some useless days in the calendar if the company is closed on certain days.

1.2 Time is set to 24 hour view by default. If we could set the time to begin at the beginning of the workday, and end at the end of the workday, it would save a lot of useless space, and details about the events or meetings could be more prominently displayed, more information could be readable without clicking or opening the event to see the details.

#2. Editing favorited calendars from the "My workspace calendar" I have subscribed to multiple calendars from different workgroups. Each workgroup already has it's own permissions for calendar editing... if those permissions are in the system already, it seems you should be able to edit your favorite calendars from the "my workspace" cal, but it is not possible. I must go to each workgroups, open each calendar and make different edits in different places.

#3. Integration with CRM. Adding contacts, lead, deals, to events on the calendar requires you to add them from the calendar, in the crm you can only creat a new meeting or activity.

For example: Our company schedules events every weekend to promote the product to clients who visit our location. From the CRM we can create/schedule new 10 meetings/events at the crm lead/contact page, but we cannot add leads/contacts to existing events on the calendar.

We would like to see events that can support multiple attendees, whom may be scheduled to join the event from the CRM pages.